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Liz Cheney—yes, that Liz Cheney, daughter of that other Cheney—has won the Republican primary for a Congressional seat in Wyoming. TheWall Street Journal suggests that her likely victory in the general elections will revive the Cheney family’s “presence” in Washington. Great! That’s great.

That nugget came during Cheney’s run for Senate in 2014, part of an apparent bid to charm the conservative voters of Wyoming. It didn’t work; they were more distracted by the fact that she had few apparent actual ties to Wyoming.

This round went better: Cheney beat seven other challengers in the primary to compete for the seat her dad held from 1979 to 1990. As NBC notes, her campaign “ focused on national security and rolling back federal regulations affecting Wyoming’s beleaguered coal industry.” The WSJ notes that she spent time working on “personal relationships” this time around, i.e. actually being in Wyoming. In the general election, she’ll face Democrat Ryan Greene, a “political newcomer” who works in the energy business, which should make their race interesting, particularly because Wyoming is typically a Red state.

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